- ArmedZombie
- Jun 6, 2004
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First of all let it be known that I created a new account just to open this thread. I'm pretty well known around here and some of you may recognize who I am from the way I write, and that's fine. But I don't want any possible embarrassment this thread may cause me to carry on to my true identity on here, or affect the way others see me.
So basically, what happened is I decided to tell my family and close friends that I'm into Democratic Socialism by having a "coming-out" party. I don't think it went very well and that's why I'm here.
Let me elaborate.
I'm a male in my early 20's. If you were to ask me who I am, the 1st thing I would instantly say is "I am a Democratic Socialist". It's who I am. It's my identity. Democratic Socialism is my life, and it felt important enough for me to tell my friends and family. I decided the best way to tell them would be to have a Democratic Socialist "coming-out party", though I didn't tell them that the party was going to be about Democratic Socialism ahead of time. I'm not stupid. I knew they would look it up in Google and see a bunch of stupid things and criticisms by trolls about it, so I decided that to make the best impression of Democratic Socialism m I would have to present it to them myself.
I ordered pizzas and planned a lot of fun activities we could do that would explain to my friends and family what Democratic Socialism is.
It started when they came in through the door. I gave everyone a sealed envelope and told them not to open it until I said so. When everyone had arrived (grandparents, aunts and uncles, my parents, 3 of my cousins, and a couple non-family friends), I announced what the purpose of the part was and had them open the envelopes. I had commissioned a popular artist that I really like to draw sketches of each of my family members/friends voting with me, and I printed these pictures out and put them in the envelope (he agreed to do the sketches for $5/each BTW so it wasn't too expensive for me). Everyone kinda laughed and a couple of them were confused when I explained (my grandpa got kind of mad at me though). I basically explained to them that I'm into Democratic Socialism and what it is. I don't think they took it very well though because they joked a lot about it (they kept asking if I was serious or if I was joking). A couple people (my parents and grandparents mostly) seemed upset though, unfortunately.
The next part of the party was I hooked up my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable and I started showing them my favorite policies on the DSA site and other pictures that I had saved on my computer. This is where the party kind of took a turn for the worse. One of my uncles got really mad and started calling me names (I don't want to repeat them here) but my aunt defended me. We argued for a bit and most of my family left at that point...I kept showing them the policies I liked on the DSA site but they started leaving and only my cousins and close friends chose to remain and look at the policies with me. What did I do wrong? Is this basically something that only younger people enjoy? Because I'm pretty sure my grandparents hated Democratic Socialism (I still love them though even if we can't see eye to eye on this subject that's extremely important to me).
Anyways the next part of the party that I had planned for so long and was expecting to be a bit hit was a kind of interactive DSA voting game. I had printed out one of my favorite DSA platforms from their site and I wanted to pass around the sheet and we would all read a part aloud, but that didn't really go as planned. One of my cousins said they thought it was "creepy"...? I tried to convince her that it'd be cool but no one wanted to do it. I had to read the story myself but when they started talking to each other about things
First of all let it be known that I created a new account just to open this thread. I'm pretty well known around here and some of you may recognize who I am from the way I write, and that's fine. But I don't want any possible embarrassment this thread may cause me to carry on to my true identity on here, or affect the way others see me.
So basically, what happened is I decided to tell my family and close friends that I'm into Democratic Socialism by having a "coming-out" party. I don't think it went very well and that's why I'm here.
Let me elaborate.
I'm a male in my early 20's. If you were to ask me who I am, the 1st thing I would instantly say is "I am a Democratic Socialist". It's who I am. It's my identity. Democratic Socialism is my life, and it felt important enough for me to tell my friends and family. I decided the best way to tell them would be to have a Democratic Socialist "coming-out party", though I didn't tell them that the party was going to be about Democratic Socialism ahead of time. I'm not stupid. I knew they would look it up in Google and see a bunch of stupid things and criticisms by trolls about it, so I decided that to make the best impression of Democratic Socialism m I would have to present it to them myself.
I ordered pizzas and planned a lot of fun activities we could do that would explain to my friends and family what Democratic Socialism is.
It started when they came in through the door. I gave everyone a sealed envelope and told them not to open it until I said so. When everyone had arrived (grandparents, aunts and uncles, my parents, 3 of my cousins, and a couple non-family friends), I announced what the purpose of the part was and had them open the envelopes. I had commissioned a popular artist that I really like to draw sketches of each of my family members/friends voting with me, and I printed these pictures out and put them in the envelope (he agreed to do the sketches for $5/each BTW so it wasn't too expensive for me). Everyone kinda laughed and a couple of them were confused when I explained (my grandpa got kind of mad at me though). I basically explained to them that I'm into Democratic Socialism and what it is. I don't think they took it very well though because they joked a lot about it (they kept asking if I was serious or if I was joking). A couple people (my parents and grandparents mostly) seemed upset though, unfortunately.
The next part of the party was I hooked up my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable and I started showing them my favorite policies on the DSA site and other pictures that I had saved on my computer. This is where the party kind of took a turn for the worse. One of my uncles got really mad and started calling me names (I don't want to repeat them here) but my aunt defended me. We argued for a bit and most of my family left at that point...I kept showing them the policies I liked on the DSA site but they started leaving and only my cousins and close friends chose to remain and look at the policies with me. What did I do wrong? Is this basically something that only younger people enjoy? Because I'm pretty sure my grandparents hated Democratic Socialism (I still love them though even if we can't see eye to eye on this subject that's extremely important to me).
Anyways the next part of the party that I had planned for so long and was expecting to be a bit hit was a kind of interactive DSA voting game. I had printed out one of my favorite DSA platforms from their site and I wanted to pass around the sheet and we would all read a part aloud, but that didn't really go as planned. One of my cousins said they thought it was "creepy"...? I tried to convince her that it'd be cool but no one wanted to do it. I had to read the story myself but when they started talking to each other about things NOT related to Democratic Socialism I kind of gave up 
The party kind of fizzled out. We just watched TV for a bit, I kept talking about Democratic Socialism a bit (but not as much as I wanted) and after the party was over everyone (the people who were left at the end, anyway) finally left.
Did I do anything wrong? Should I try to do the party again, because I think they may have interpreted my interest wrong? It's really important for me and I want them to know, but how can I communicate my love of Democratic Socialism to my family members who are specifically picky about such issues >.> , such as my uncle who was intollerant of me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
First of all let it be known that I created a new account just to open this thread. I'm pretty well known around here and some of you may recognize who I am from the way I write, and that's fine. But I don't want any possible embarrassment this thread may cause me to carry on to my true identity on here, or affect the way others see me.
So basically, what happened is I decided to tell my family and close friends that I'm into Democratic Socialism by having a "coming-out" party. I don't think it went very well and that's why I'm here.
Let me elaborate.
I'm a male in my early 20's. If you were to ask me who I am, the 1st thing I would instantly say is "I am a Democratic Socialist". It's who I am. It's my identity. Democratic Socialism is my life, and it felt important enough for me to tell my friends and family. I decided the best way to tell them would be to have a Democratic Socialist "coming-out party", though I didn't tell them that the party was going to be about Democratic Socialism ahead of time. I'm not stupid. I knew they would look it up in Google and see a bunch of stupid things and criticisms by trolls about it, so I decided that to make the best impression of Democratic Socialism m I would have to present it to them myself.
I ordered pizzas and planned a lot of fun activities we could do that would explain to my friends and family what Democratic Socialism is.
It started when they came in through the door. I gave everyone a sealed envelope and told them not to open it until I said so. When everyone had arrived (grandparents, aunts and uncles, my parents, 3 of my cousins, and a couple non-family friends), I announced what the purpose of the part was and had them open the envelopes. I had commissioned a popular artist that I really like to draw sketches of each of my family members/friends voting with me, and I printed these pictures out and put them in the envelope (he agreed to do the sketches for $5/each BTW so it wasn't too expensive for me). Everyone kinda laughed and a couple of them were confused when I explained (my grandpa got kind of mad at me though). I basically explained to them that I'm into Democratic Socialism and what it is. I don't think they took it very well though because they joked a lot about it (they kept asking if I was serious or if I was joking). A couple people (my parents and grandparents mostly) seemed upset though, unfortunately.
The next part of the party was I hooked up my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable and I started showing them my favorite policies on the DSA site and other pictures that I had saved on my computer. This is where the party kind of took a turn for the worse. One of my uncles got really mad and started calling me names (I don't want to repeat them here) but my aunt defended me. We argued for a bit and most of my family left at that point...I kept showing them the policies I liked on the DSA site but they started leaving and only my cousins and close friends chose to remain and look at the policies with me. What did I do wrong? Is this basically something that only younger people enjoy? Because I'm pretty sure my grandparents hated Democratic Socialism (I still love them though even if we can't see eye to eye on this subject that's extremely important to me).
Anyways the next part of the party that I had planned for so long and was expecting to be a bit hit was a kind of interactive DSA voting game. I had printed out one of my favorite DSA platforms from their site and I wanted to pass around the sheet and we would all read a part aloud, but that didn't really go as planned. One of my cousins said they thought it was "creepy"...? I tried to convince her that it'd be cool but no one wanted to do it. I had to read the story myself but when they started talking to each other about things NOT related to Democratic Socialism I kind of gave up
The party kind of fizzled out. We just watched TV for a bit, I kept talking about Democratic Socialism a bit (but not as much as I wanted) and after the party was over everyone (the people who were left at the end, anyway) finally left.
Did I do anything wrong? Should I try to do the party again, because I think they may have interpreted my interest wrong? It's really important for me and I want them to know, but how can I communicate my love of Democratic Socialism to my family members who are specifically picky about such issues >.> , such as my uncle who was intollerant of me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
First of all let it be known that I created a new account just to open this thread. I'm pretty well known around here and some of you may recognize who I am from the way I write, and that's fine. But I don't want any possible embarrassment this thread may cause me to carry on to my true identity on here, or affect the way others see me.
So basically, what happened is I decided to tell my family and close friends that I'm into Democratic Socialism by having a "coming-out" party. I don't think it went very well and that's why I'm here.
Let me elaborate.
I'm a male in my early 20's. If you were to ask me who I am, the 1st thing I would instantly say is "I am a Democratic Socialist". It's who I am. It's my identity. Democratic Socialism is my life, and it felt important enough for me to tell my friends and family. I decided the best way to tell them would be to have a Democratic Socialist "coming-out party", though I didn't tell them that the party was going to be about Democratic Socialism ahead of time. I'm not stupid. I knew they would look it up in Google and see a bunch of stupid things and criticisms by trolls about it, so I decided that to make the best impression of Democratic Socialism m I would have to present it to them myself.
I ordered pizzas and planned a lot of fun activities we could do that would explain to my friends and family what Democratic Socialism is.
It started when they came in through the door. I gave everyone a sealed envelope and told them not to open it until I said so. When everyone had arrived (grandparents, aunts and uncles, my parents, 3 of my cousins, and a couple non-family friends), I announced what the purpose of the part was and had them open the envelopes. I had commissioned a popular artist that I really like to draw sketches of each of my family members/friends voting with me, and I printed these pictures out and put them in the envelope (he agreed to do the sketches for $5/each BTW so it wasn't too expensive for me). Everyone kinda laughed and a couple of them were confused when I explained (my grandpa got kind of mad at me though). I basically explained to them that I'm into Democratic Socialism and what it is. I don't think they took it very well though because they joked a lot about it (they kept asking if I was serious or if I was joking). A couple people (my parents and grandparents mostly) seemed upset though, unfortunately.
The next part of the party was I hooked up my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable and I started showing them my favorite policies on the DSA site and other pictures that I had saved on my computer. This is where the party kind of took a turn for the worse. One of my uncles got really mad and started calling me names (I don't want to repeat them here) but my aunt defended me. We argued for a bit and most of my family left at that point...I kept showing them the policies I liked on the DSA site but they started leaving and only my cousins and close friends chose to remain and look at the policies with me. What did I do wrong? Is this basically something that only younger people enjoy? Because I'm pretty sure my grandparents hated Democratic Socialism (I still love them though even if we can't see eye to eye on this subject that's extremely important to me).
Anyways the next part of the party that I had planned for so long and was expecting to be a bit hit was a kind of interactive DSA voting game. I had printed out one of my favorite DSA platforms from their site and I wanted to pass around the sheet and we would all read a part aloud, but that didn't really go as planned. One of my cousins said they thought it was "creepy"...? I tried to convince her that it'd be cool but no one wanted to do it. I had to read the story myself but when they started talking to each other about things NOT related to Democratic Socialism I kind of gave up
The party kind of fizzled out. We just watched TV for a bit, I kept talking about Democratic Socialism a bit (but not as much as I wanted) and after the party was over everyone (the people who were left at the end, anyway) finally left.
Did I do anything wrong? Should I try to do the party again, because I think they may have interpreted my interest wrong? It's really important for me and I want them to know, but how can I communicate my love of Democratic Socialism to my family members who are specifically picky about such issues >.> , such as my uncle who was intollerant of me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
First of all let it be known that I created a new account just to open this thread. I'm pretty well known around here and some of you may recognize who I am from the way I write, and that's fine. But I don't want any possible embarrassment this thread may cause me to carry on to my true identity on here, or affect the way others see me.
So basically, what happened is I decided to tell my family and close friends that I'm into Democratic Socialism by having a "coming-out" party. I don't think it went very well and that's why I'm here.
Let me elaborate.
I'm a male in my early 20's. If you were to ask me who I am, the 1st thing I would instantly say is "I am a Democratic Socialist". It's who I am. It's my identity. Democratic Socialism is my life, and it felt important enough for me to tell my friends and family. I decided the best way to tell them would be to have a Democratic Socialist "coming-out party", though I didn't tell them that the party was going to be about Democratic Socialism ahead of time. I'm not stupid. I knew they would look it up in Google and see a bunch of stupid things and criticisms by trolls about it, so I decided that to make the best impression of Democratic Socialism m I would have to present it to them myself.
I ordered pizzas and planned a lot of fun activities we could do that would explain to my friends and family what Democratic Socialism is.
It started when they came in through the door. I gave everyone a sealed envelope and told them not to open it until I said so. When everyone had arrived (grandparents, aunts and uncles, my parents, 3 of my cousins, and a couple non-family friends), I announced what the purpose of the part was and had them open the envelopes. I had commissioned a popular artist that I really like to draw sketches of each of my family members/friends voting with me, and I printed these pictures out and put them in the envelope (he agreed to do the sketches for $5/each BTW so it wasn't too expensive for me). Everyone kinda laughed and a couple of them were confused when I explained (my grandpa got kind of mad at me though). I basically explained to them that I'm into Democratic Socialism and what it is. I don't think they took it very well though because they joked a lot about it (they kept asking if I was serious or if I was joking). A couple people (my parents and grandparents mostly) seemed upset though, unfortunately.
The next part of the party was I hooked up my laptop to my TV with an HDMI cable and I started showing them my favorite policies on the DSA site and other pictures that I had saved on my computer. This is where the party kind of took a turn for the worse. One of my uncles got really mad and started calling me names (I don't want to repeat them here) but my aunt defended me. We argued for a bit and most of my family left at that point...I kept showing them the policies I liked on the DSA site but they started leaving and only my cousins and close friends chose to remain and look at the policies with me. What did I do wrong? Is this basically something that only younger people enjoy? Because I'm pretty sure my grandparents hated Democratic Socialism (I still love them though even if we can't see eye to eye on this subject that's extremely important to me).
Anyways the next part of the party that I had planned for so long and was expecting to be a bit hit was a kind of interactive DSA voting game. I had printed out one of my favorite DSA platforms from their site and I wanted to pass around the sheet and we would all read a part aloud, but that didn't really go as planned. One of my cousins said they thought it was "creepy"...? I tried to convince her that it'd be cool but no one wanted to do it. I had to read the story myself but when they started talking to each other about things NOT related to Democratic Socialism I kind of gave up
The party kind of fizzled out. We just watched TV for a bit, I kept talking about Democratic Socialism a bit (but not as much as I wanted) and after the party was over everyone (the people who were left at the end, anyway) finally left.
Did I do anything wrong? Should I try to do the party again, because I think they may have interpreted my interest wrong? It's really important for me and I want them to know, but how can I communicate my love of Democratic Socialism to my family members who are specifically picky about such issues >.> , such as my uncle who was intollerant of me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
NOT related to Democratic Socialism I kind of gave up
The party kind of fizzled out. We just watched TV for a bit, I kept talking about Democratic Socialism a bit (but not as much as I wanted) and after the party was over everyone (the people who were left at the end, anyway) finally left.
Did I do anything wrong? Should I try to do the party again, because I think they may have interpreted my interest wrong? It's really important for me and I want them to know, but how can I communicate my love of Democratic Socialism to my family members who are specifically picky about such issues >.> , such as my uncle who was intollerant of me? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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